Joe Flint
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290 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5 Mar
Joe Flint’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the fact that they don't love the theatrical movie business, that's going to be an issue.
There's going to be a lot of distrust among the writers, producers, directors, and that community.
And Netflix will have some goodwill to build.
And at the same time, and this would have happened no matter who bought it, we're going to see two more companies merge, and that's going to be layoffs.
So I don't think anyone in the creative industry is embracing any more mergers.
I think Wall Street doesn't totally love the idea of a Netflix deal yet, if you look at what their stock's been doing as of late.
So it's going to be a bit of a slog, and it may take a long time for this deal to get through Washington and then close.
We might be looking at two years or something.
We'll see.
There is so much uncertainty about where the audience is going and how best to capture that audience and advertisers and the people who run these big companies naturally feel that they need to be bigger to compete.
A wizard and a thumping goodnight wager.
The Wall Street Journal's previously reported Paramount has made offers for Warner Brothers Discovery, and they have now made two offers, both of which have been rebuffed.
Warner Brothers Discovery issued a statement this morning saying they have received interest from multiple suitors for some or all of the company.
They're not disclosing who the suitors are.
There's a round up the usual suspects list going around the industry.
The others are very likely more interested in the Warner Brothers studio, library, and
The chairman of the company issued a statement this morning saying the split is still the preferred option of the company.
Now, this can be also seen as a bit of a negotiating ploy.
But for now, they said they're going to explore these other options, keep marching forward with the split with an idea of completing it in the middle of 2026 at the latest.
fear fear is partially driving the consolidation there is so much uncertainty about where the audience is going and how best to capture that audience and advertisers and the people who run these big companies naturally feel that they need to be bigger to compete well paramount has not commented specifically about warner brothers or any potential acquisitions
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